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A painter mixed 2 liters of red paint with every 5 liters of yellow paint in order to make an orange paint.

Problem:
Which ratio of liters of red paint to yellow paint will make the same shade of orange paint?
can somebody help, its for a test please :(

User Afzal Ali
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Answer: Theres multiple !

Step-by-step explanation: 4:10, 12:20 , 6:15, etc.

User TeAmEr
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Answer:

so 2 l of red to every 5 l of yellow. If you expand that, the possibilities are 4 to 10, 6 to 15, 8 to 20 etc.

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